"As I see it, life is an effort to grip before they slip through one's fingers and slide into oblivion, the startling, the ghastly or the blindingly ex...

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To live at all is miracle enough.

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"Each day we live is a glass roomUntil we break it with the thrustingOf the spirit and pass throughThe splintered walls to the green pasturesWhere the ...
"Life is too fleet for onomatopoeia.
"For death is life. It is only living that is lifeless.